英语词汇“revocation”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

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revocation

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revocation|rɛvəʊˈkeɪʃən|
[a. OF. revocacion, -ation (mod.F. révocation, = Sp. revocacion, It. re-, rivocazione), or ad. L. revocātio, n. of action f. revocāre to revoke.]
1. The action of recalling; recall (of persons); a call or summons to return. Now rare or Obs.
In 17–18th cent. esp. the recall of a representative or ambassador from abroad; also in letters of revocation.
c1420Lydg. Assembly of Gods 1746 Then sesyd the Tyme of Deuyacion,..Entryng the Tyme of Reuocacion.1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) V. 161 Themperour..callede Liberius from exile,..whiche beenge gladde of þat revocation..declinede hym selfe to þat heresy.1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 179 They armed vessels to the Sea and sought to compell the King to their revocation.1592Sir H. Unton Corr. (Roxb.) 412, I perceave..howe willingly you vouchsaffe to assent to my revocation.1612Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 115 There may some stay be made of your revocation by reason of the necessary use of your presence there.c1645Howell Lett. i. xxxi. (1650) I. 87 Don Iulian..got letters of revocation, and came back to Spain.1686tr. Chardin's Trav. Persia 11 The whole Establishment..had utterly gone to ruine, by the recalling of their Resident.., had they not been better advis'd then to make that Revocation.1710Lond. Gaz. No. 4713/1 The Envoy delivered his Letters of Revocation, and is preparing to leave this Court.1782Johnson Let. to Dr. Taylor 22 July, Sir Robert Chambers slipped this session through the fingers of revocation, but I am in doubt of his continuance.
b. transf. with reference to things.
1649Bp. Hall Cases Consc. i. iv. (1654) 29 The inconvenience or losse whereunto he is put upon the sudden revocation of that money.1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. vi. 197 The Italians..apply Cupping-glasses to the lower parts, for revocation of the poisonous matter from the Heart.1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xxi. (1859) II. 25 The faculty of which this revocation is the energy, I call the Reproductive.1881Nature XXIV. 572/1 When the second patch is placed on an independent tube, where no such revocation is possible, phosphorescence actually appears, showing that the revocation is no mere supposition.
2. The action of revoking, rescinding, or annulling; withdrawal (of a grant, etc.).
c1425Wyntoun Cron. v. ii. 281 Qwhen his procuratouris ordanyt he.., Seyldyn reuocacion He made of þar commyssion.1488–9Act 4 Hen. VII, c. 5 This Act of adnullacion, resumpcion, revocacion, or voidaunce of lettres patentes.1568Ld. Scrope in Ellis Orig. Lett. i. II. 240 Synce thoroe hyr pryvye revocation theroff within full aege they cowld not injoye the same by lawe.1590Swinburne Testaments 268 The former testament may be the more easily reuoked, without any such precise obseruation of speciall reuocation.1639Fuller Holy War iv. xix. (1840) 212 These [laws] were those of the grand charter, which admitted of no revocation.1671J. Flavel Fount. Life xii. 34 It expiates all fully without Exception and finally without Revocation.1710Prideaux Orig. Tithes i. 21 The Law of Tithes..could not cease without a particular revocation under the Gospel.1788Gentl. Mag. LVIII. 198/2 He foresaw the revocation of the edict of Nantz, several years before it happened.1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India I. 281 The persuasion that the revocation of the Government order would alone prevent a general and fatal insurrection.1861Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. xiv. 211 The Queen sent a message to promise a general revocation of all such grants.
†3. Recantation; withdrawal (of statements). Obs.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 510/2 When he wist wel his reuocacion could not saue his body: yet reuoked he his heresies..for to saue his soule.1540Coverdale Confut. Standish Wks. (Parker Soc.) II. 345 What revocations ye make in men's names, they being absent, I cannot tell.1612Brinsley Lud. Lit. xiii. (1627) 184 Those figures of Sentences.., as of Exclamations, Revocations, Apostrophees.1684T. Burnet The. Earth I. 150, I affirm nothing therein but with a power of revocation, and a liberty to change my opinion when I shall be better inform'd.
†4. Reformation. Obs. rare^—1.
1579Fulke Heskins's Parl. 484 Basil speaketh not of wicked men.., but of such as be not zealous and earnest ynough, to practise mortification, & reuocation.

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